Only ways you can keep folks hating is to keep them apart and separated from each other.

- Margaret Walker

You is born lucky, and it's better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if you is born rich and you ain't luc…

- Margaret Walker

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

- Margaret Walker

Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.

- Margaret Walker

I have always secretly felt that what mankind should be in an ideal sense is that mixture of people and races. I really believe in it. I don't think …

- Margaret Walker

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

- Margaret Walker

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a…

- Margaret Walker

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

- Margaret Walker

A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; and a private life.

- Margaret Walker